Boiga beddomei
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Boiga beddomei (Wall, 1909) |
Beddome's Cat Snake, Boiga beddomei, is a species of snake found in Sri Lanka and India (Western Ghats, : Maharashtra (Bhimashankar, Mulshi, Koyna(?), Vasota(?))). It was named after Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911), British army officer and botanist.
[edit] References
- Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
- Wall,F. 1909 Remarks on some forms of Dipsadomorphus. Rec. Ind. Mus. 3: 151-155
- Wall, Frank 1921 Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages